Chapter 7

Results

Why is more ozone found in polar regions than near the equator where more solar radiation occurs? Reexamination of the Brewer-Dobson solution (Fig 1) to that question has resulted in a differing conclusion:

At high latitudes, paramagnetic oxygen is attracted to magnetic force fields between Antarctica and Australia and between Canada and Siberia. In the southern hemisphere the eccentric South Magnetic Pole attracts paramagnetic oxygen away from the rotational South Pole leaving an Oxygen Hole. CFCs collect on nacreous Polar Stratospheric Clouds and strip any remaining ozone. The resulting Ozone Hole is frigid and expands the Antarctic sea ice out to the latitude of the South Magnetic Pole.

The original Ozone Hole was discovered in 1983, the year that the wandering South Magnetic Pole moved off the Antarctic continental shelf. The pole continues moving northwestward at 10-15 km. per year. The North Magnetic Pole lies close to the rotational North Pole but it is wandering toward Siberia at 55-60 km. per year. This rapid movement started two decades ago when the magnetic pole wandered off the Canadian continental shelf. It coincides with extreme weather in the northern hemisphere.

If the North Magnetic Pole continues wandering fairly rapidly into Siberia, it might set up a northern ozone hole by attenuating the Rossby waves over the continental land masses rimming the Arctic Ocean. This might initiate another glacial episode of the Pleistocene variety. Paramagnetic oxygen and wandering magnetic poles could be the periodic mechanism that has driven the ice ages.

Indeed, the five major glaciations on Earth have occurred since the Great Oxygenation Event 2.3 billion years ago. The Huronian snow ball lasted from 2400 mya until 2100 mya. The Cryogenian deep freeze was 850 mya to 635 mya. Pangea was engulfed in ice during the Andean-Saharan 450 mya to 420 mya. Major glaciation occurred during the Karoo 360 mya until 260 mya. And finally our current Quaternary glaciation began a brief 2.58 mya. Paramagnetic oxygen has been influenced by wandering magnetic poles for 2300 million years. The recent melting may be the climax of an interglacial period and the resumption of the Ice Age.

Magnetic poles control cold oxygen which controls ozone conversion which controls jet stream velocity which controls Rossby wave loops which control the weather. Therefore, magnetic poles control the weather.

Wandering magnetic poles control global climate change!

Discussion

Investigation of the atmospheric role of paramagnetic oxygen has proven fruitful. Using ozone as a tracer, the poleward migration of tropospheric oxygen was shown to be the answer to the Brewer-Dobson stratospheric question. Mid-latitude jet stream conversion was introduced as the prime mover of Rossby wave extreme weather. The southern polar vortex was shown to be Rossby wave attenuation caused by the eccentric South Magnetic Pole. The ozone hole was displayed as a paramagnetic oxygen hole stripped by the magnetic pole. Tibetan ground-based studies and various NASA satellite mappings displayed detailed patterns of oxygen/ozone conversion at mid- to high-latitudes. Projection of the magnetic polar wanderings indicated that the present interglacial stage may be reaching a heated climax and that continental glaciation soon could be triggered by the paramagnetic oxygen transport process. All this from pursuing a scientific question!

As to the future, we need to hold the line on CFCs and sharply decrease carbon dioxide emissions. It will be a long time in human terms before the wandering magnetic poles progress to more agreeable positions.

Acknowledgments

I thank and acknowledge the free and open information policies of NASA, NOAA, SFSU-CRWS and KNMI-TEMI, plus all the ozone work that has been performed and published on the internet by many other scientists. Posthumously, I thank Tulsa engineer Woody Naifeh for telling me in 1994 about his high school science teacher who dragged liquid oxygen around on a marble table with a magnet. It has taken me two decades to figure it out. I am grateful for the invaluable computer assistance of my daughter Dana Todd, one of the pioneers of digital marketing. Lastly, I am thankful to the oil and gas industry for teaching me how to recognize patterns and anomalies in scientific data, and to Landmark for the motivation to finish developing this research.

I apologize for any gross errors of interpretation that may have occurred due to my stepping outside my career in subsurface geology. I encourage replies and discussion of the validity of the concepts in this paper. Please feel free to comment below or email me ( harry.todd@cox.net ). Also, please pass along the link to this website ( http://www.harrytodd.org ) to everyone interested in global climate change.